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Word: stucke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slowly the weight of two full Red regiments pushed the undermanned U.S. units back toward the pass. But at the pass, the G.I.s stuck. Time & time again, Red charges smashed against the Americans' guns. As the Reds rushed up reserves, frantic G.I. gunners manning 13 guns lobbed a torrent of 155-mm. and 105-mm. shells into masses of green-clad North Koreans trying to move up along the hillsides. But the Reds kept on coming. Two "Mansei" (the Korean equivalent of the Japanese "Banzai") charges rolled up against the U.S. positions-and broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: On the Hill This Afternoon | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...crowded Capitol committee room glittered with the brightest U.S. brass as the Senate Appropriations Committee sat down for private hearings on the nation's military needs. Suddenly, the door popped open and Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, the Republican minority leader, stuck his greying head inside. "Hold up a minute," he shouted. Then Ken Wherry politely stood back while 30 hushed and awed ladies tiptoed in. "These are good Nebraska girls," explained Wherry as the ladies giggled. "I wanted them to see this great committee." One by one Chairman Kenneth McKellar, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Admiral Forrest Sherman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hold Up a Minute | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...Rand's house, told him curtly to get Jip off the island or shoot her within four days. Rand made arrangements to send his pet to Guernsey, but at the last moment he changed his mind. "We were together in the air raids," he stammered. "She stuck to us and we'll stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Medieval Monopoly | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...Brereton Lake, Jim Turner of Winnipeg let an orange slip overboard. Before he could recover it the fruit disappeared. A few minutes later, Turner heard a violent threshing in the reeds near shore, rowed over and gaffed a northern pike that was slowly choking to death with an orange stuck in its throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Summer's Tales | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...twelve-car, ten-lap first heat, Rathman stuck with the pace for four laps, then gunned and jockeyed his big car into the lead, won by two lengths. In the first semifinal (15 laps) he had a little more trouble. No matter what he did, he was unable to catch a midget red Crosley labeled "½ Pint" which spun into the turns on two wheels, snaked through the bigger cars like a frightened jaywalker, beat Rathman's Cadillac by four lengths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Motor Madness | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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